Google Uses Elephants and Camels to Map Remote Parts of the Globe

In Cambodia, monkeys destroyed its equipment

ULURU, Australia—Google is coming across some unusual challenges as it seeks to capture eye-level imagery of the most remote parts of the globe.

In a recent foray into the Australian outback, Google’s amateur cartographers used a backpack to lug bulky camera equipment around Uluru, a popular tourist site also known as Ayers Rock. One hitch: they had to avoid photographing certain parts of the red rock formation that are especially sacred to the local Aboriginal people.